George Golding Kennedy Correspondence. George Golding Kennedy Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria

George Golding Kennedy (1841-1918) was a medicine manufacturer and botanist from Roxbury, Massachusetts. After earning his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, he practiced medicine for a short time, then took over his father's business manufacturing medicines. He was active in the New England Botanical Club, published brief articles on botany, and in 1904, published a flora of Willoughby, Vermont. He developed a sizeable herbarium which he eventually gave to the Farlow, Gray and New England Botanical Club herbaria. He was active on the Visiting Committee of the Gray Herbarium and gave the money to build a new library wing in 1914. Kennedy married Harriet White Harris in 1865, and they had five children

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Consists of letters written to George Kennedy from 108 correspondents with surnames starting with I-Q, mostly regarding botany but also some regarding personal matters. The letters are arranged alphabetically by sender with the exception of correspondents with four or more letters, whose letters can be found at the end of each file. These correspondents are Rhoby A. Ingraham (eight letters), Henry Griswold Jesup (eight letters), Lewis Ralph Jones (16 letters and additional miscellanea), Kennedy's family (10 letters and additional miscellanea), Nathaniel Thayer Kidder (12 letters and additional miscellanea), Annie and William Albert Lorenz (21 letters), James Melville Macoun and John Macoun (18 letters), Thomas Morong (seven letters), and Quincy's Market (six letters and additional miscellanea)

Correspondents with three or fewer letters: Church of the New Jerusalem, P.J. Dr. Issaverdens, John G. Jack, Joseph Jackson, T.A. Jaggar, Jr., Alice H. James, William James, Jr., Charles W. Jenks, Harris Kennedy, E.C. Kent, Chester C. Kingman, George L. Kirk, Julius Klein, Maywood Ladd, Julia Lawrence, Robert G. Leavitt, Joseph Robert Leeson, Mark H. Liddell, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Alonzo Linn, Henry W. Longfellow, Mrs. Sarah K. Lord, J. Lunell, George R. Lyman, J.S. Simonton, Arthur H. Brooks, W.W. Churchill, George Lincoln Goodale, Sinclair Kennedy, Gardiner Martin Lane, Alexander McAdie, Norman D. MacDonald, Horace Mann, B. Pickman Mann, Warren H. Manning, Edward Laurens Mark, Albert Mason, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Massachusetts Civil Service Association, F. Schuyler Mathews, William R. Maxon, Celia McKay, Charles S. Minot, William J. Miter, William Mitten, Dora Moldenhauer, George A. Moore, T.T. Munger, George Murray, Winthrop Packard, C.K. Bolton, J.H. Emerton, Nathaniel C. Nash, N.L. Nelson, New England Botanical Club, New England Federation of Natural History Societies, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Arthur H. Nichols, L.F. Noble, Edward L. Rand, John Boyle O'Reilly, Maria L. Owen, Anne L. Page, Calvin G. Page, George Herbert Palmer, [Gal. Paris], W. Prentiss Parker, Frank W. Patch, H.N. Patterson, Grace Merrill Payson, Arthur Stanley Pease, Charles H. Peck, G.H. Perkins, Harris K. Phelps, M.V. Pierce, Thomas C. Porter, W.C. Prime, Lewis I. Prouty, H.A. Prudie, David C.B. Wolfe, Edgerly & Crocker (Joseph Ballard Crocker, Walter H. Edgerly), and Bernard Quaritch

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